The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical ProseSelection includes The Portrait of Mr W.H., Wilde's defence of Dorian Gray, reviews, and the writings from 'Intentions' (1891): 'The Decay of Lying, 'Pen, Pencil, Poison', and 'The Critic as Artist'. |
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... later was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for acts of gross indecency. As a result of this experience he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol. He was released from prison in 1897 and went into an immediate self-imposed exile on the ...
... later was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for acts of gross indecency. As a result of this experience he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol. He was released from prison in 1897 and went into an immediate self-imposed exile on the ...
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... later, in 1962 when the full text of the De Profundis letter was published for the first time, Wilde's statement seemed to many to be excessive and overweening – tragic proof of a deterioration of mind and character under the savage ...
... later, in 1962 when the full text of the De Profundis letter was published for the first time, Wilde's statement seemed to many to be excessive and overweening – tragic proof of a deterioration of mind and character under the savage ...
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... innovative eye and ear physician later given a knighthood in recognition of his services to medicine. Sir William Wilde founded an eye and ear hospital in Dublin, wrote what became the earliest textbooks in the British Isles on aural.
... innovative eye and ear physician later given a knighthood in recognition of his services to medicine. Sir William Wilde founded an eye and ear hospital in Dublin, wrote what became the earliest textbooks in the British Isles on aural.
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... later, in varying accents, all of them can be overheard murmuring with Théophile Gautier, 'Je suis un homme pour quile monde visible existe' ('I am a man for whom the visible world exists'). But for Wilde, colour was also intensely ...
... later, in varying accents, all of them can be overheard murmuring with Théophile Gautier, 'Je suis un homme pour quile monde visible existe' ('I am a man for whom the visible world exists'). But for Wilde, colour was also intensely ...
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... later fairy tales, he would thus locate the nest of the nightingale – against all natural history – in a holm-oak tree, simply to bring into his story the haunting assonance of 'holm' and 'oak'. So Wilde, everywhere in his prose and ...
... later fairy tales, he would thus locate the nest of the nightingale – against all natural history – in a holm-oak tree, simply to bring into his story the haunting assonance of 'holm' and 'oak'. So Wilde, everywhere in his prose and ...
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